Global Faulkner (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

"Today, debates about globalization raise both hopes and fears. But what about during William Faulkner's time? Was he aware of worldwide cultural, historical, and economic developments? Just how interested was Faulkner in the global scheme of things?" "The contributors to Global Faulkner suggest that a global context is helpful for recognizing the broader international meanings of Faulkner's celebrated regional landscape. Several scholars address how the flow of capital from the time of slavery through the Cold War period in his fiction links Faulkner's South with the larger world. Other authors explore the literary similarities that connect Faulkner's South to Latin America, Africa, Spain, Japan, and the Caribbean. In essays by scholars from around the world, Faulkner emerges in trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific contexts, in a pan-Caribbean world, and in the space of the Middle Passage and the African Atlantic. The Nobel laureate's fiction is linked to that of such writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Wole Soyinka, Miguel de Cervantes, and Kenji Nakagami."--BOOK JACKET Introduction / Annette Trefzer -- Note On The Conference -- Many Mansions: Faulkner's Cold War Conflicts / John T. Matthews -- From Colony To Empire: Postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck -- The Fetish Of Surplus Value; Or, What The Ledgers Say / Melanie R. Benson -- On The Tragedies And Comedies Of The New World Faulkner / George B. Handley -- Blood On The Leaves, Blood At The Root: Ritual Carriers And Sacrificial Crises Of Transition In Yoknapatawpha And Oyo / Keith Cartwright -- Reading Faulkner In Spain, Reading Spain In Faulkner / Manuel Broncano -- The Global/local Nexus Of Patriarchy: Japanese Writers Encounter Faulkner / Takako Tanaka -- Artificial Women, The Pygmalion Paradigm, And Faulkner's Gordon In Mosquitoes / Mario Materassi -- Almost Feminine, Almost Brother, Almost Southern: The Transnational Queer Figure Of Charles Bon In Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Elizabeth Steeby -- Fear Of A Black Atlantic? African Passages In Absalom, Absalom! And The Last Slaver / Jeff Karem -- Faulkner And Me / Tierno Monénembo. Edited By Annette Trefzer And Ann J. Abadie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 8 Introduction 10 Note on the Conference 16 Many Mansions: Faulkner’s Cold War Conflicts 20 From Colony to Empire: Postmodern Faulkner 41 The Fetish of Surplus Value; or, What the Ledgers Say 60 On the Tragedies and Comedies of the New World Faulkner 76 Blood on the Leaves, Blood at the Root: Ritual Carriers and Sacrificial Crises of Transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo 95 Reading Faulkner in Spain, Reading Spain in Faulkner 116 The Global/Local Nexus of Patriarchy: Japanese Writers Encounter Faulkner 133 Artificial Women, the Pygmalion Paradigm, and Faulkner’s Gordon in Mosquitoes 152 Almost Feminine, Almost Brother, Almost Southern: The Transnational Queer Figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! 168 Fear of a Black Atlantic? African Passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The Last Slaver 179 Faulkner and Me 191 Contributors 202 Index 206 A 206 B 206 C 206 D 207 E 207 F 207 G 207 H 207 I 208 J 208 K 208 L 208 M 208 N 209 O 209 P 209 Q 209 R 210 S 210 T 210 U 211 V 211 W 211 Y 211 Z 211 Introduction / Annette Trefzer A note on the conference Many mansions: Faulkner's Cold War conflicts / John T. Matthews From colony to empire: postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck The fetish of surplus value; or, What the ledgers say / Melanie R. Benson On the tragedies and comedies of the new world Faulkner / George B. Handley Blood on the leaves, blood at the root: ritual carriers and sacrificial crises of transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo / Keith Cartwright Reading Faulkner in Spain, reading Spain in Faulkner / Manuel Broncano The global/local nexus of patriarchy: Japanese writers encounter Faulkner / Takako Tanaka Artificial women, the Pygmalion paradigm, and Faulkner's Gordon In mosquitoes / Mario Materassi Almost feminine, almost brother, almost Southern: the transnational queer figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Elizabeth Steeby Fear of a black Atlantic? African passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The last slaver / Jeff Karem Faulkner and me / Tierno Monénembo.